2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade

2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a parade held in Red Square on 9 May 2013 to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the capitulation of the Third Reich in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in the Great Patriotic War on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies in Berlin, at midnight of May 9, 1945 (Moscow time). The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, delivered his tenth holiday address, and it was the first parade for both the Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoigu (parade inspector) and Russian Ground Forces commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin (parade commander), replacing Valery Gerasimov who has been promoted to Chief of the General Staff.
The parade this year included the Suvorov Military School and the Nakhimov Naval School for the first time in four years, and the first appearance from a Cossack cadet corps unit, joining the more than 11,000 service personnel that marched on Red Square, and the return of the full air fly over after two years. The BTR82A IFV made its parade debut this year as part of the mobile column. Sevastopol in Ukraine, where the Black Sea Fleet is based, and 23 Russian cities will also hold parades on this day. As per tradition Kharkiv and Odesa in Ukraine also hold a full commemorative parade on this day as well.
Preparation
Since November 2012, preparations for the parade have been well attended at the unit level. Individual and unit practices were held in the various military installations for all the participant units.
In March 2013, the full rehearsal started at the training center at Alabino, Moscow Oblast. The parade preparations started on April 11–12 for all the units as the mobile column of more than a hundred military vehicles finished up their practice runs on the field. Also undertaking practice runs are the massed military bands that will take part in the parade led by Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov in his 11th Victory Day Parade appearance and the squadron of Mil Mi-8 helicopters from the Army Aviation Training Center for the fly past segment later on, which will feature various other military aircraft. In all 68 aircraft are taking part after a 2-year absence.
Moscow practice runs for the parade proper commenced on April 24–26, 2013 on Red Square itself, and the practice runs ended on May 3 and 4 with two general practice runs. One final practice was scheduled for May 7, two days before the parade with Defense Minister Shoigu inspecting a full final rehearsal run, starting at 10 AM Moscow Time, the time in which the parade two days later will commence. Col. Gen. Chirkin led the marchers on that day's practice run on the Red Square grounds.
154th Independent Commandant's Regiment's change of title
As the parade practices commenced on April 11, the 154th Independent Commandant's Regiment, the official honor guard regiment of the Russian Armed Forces, joined the rehearsals as always as permanent participants, this time as the 154th Independent Commandant's Preobrazhensky Regiment, the new title bestowed on it several days ago via a Presidential executive order by Vladimir Putin in his constitutional duty as Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. That very act was done on April 9 the same year. This entrustment of the honorary title is a continuation of the great military traditions of the Russian armed services ever since the raising of the first two regiments of the Imperial Russian Army by no less than Peter the Great himself as well as of both the Imperial Russian and Soviet Armies as a whole.
Parade Participants (full list)
Bold indicates first appearance, italic indicates multiple appearances, Bold and italic indicate returning appearance.
General of the Army Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation (parade inspector)
Colonel General Vladimir Chirkin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces (parade commander)
Military Bands
Massed Military Bands of the Armed Forces under the direction of the Senior Director of Music of the Military Bands Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov
Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School
Ground Column
154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment Colour Guard and Honour Guard Company of the 1st Honor Guard Battalion, 154th ICR
Suvorov Military School (returning)
Nakhimov Naval School (returning)
Aksanskiy Cossack Cadet Corps (first appearance)
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Military University of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation
Military Academy of Material and Technical Security "General of the Army A. V. Khrulev" (first appearance) Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy (returning)
Peter the Great Naval Corps - St. Petersburg Naval Institute (First appearance)
336th Independent Naval Infantry Brigade
Military Space Academy "Alexander Mozhaysky"
Serpukhov Military Rocket Forces Institute (first appearance)
Ryazan Airborne Senior Command Academy "Gen. of the Army Vasily Margelov" (returning)
98th Guards Airborne Division
1st NBC Coastal Brigade
9th Chemical Disposal Regiment
29th and 38th Independent Railway Brigades of the Russian Railway Troops
OMSDON Ind. Motorized Internal Troops Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
Moscow Border Institute of the FSB
27th Independent Sevastopol Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division "Mikhail Kalinin"
4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division "Yuri Andropov"
6th Independent Chentokhovskaya Guards Tank Brigade (first appearance)
288th Independent Warsaw-Brandenburg Artillery Brigade
Military Technical University of the Federal Agency of Special Construction
Moscow Military Commanders Training School "Supreme Soviet of Russia"
Mobile Column
GAZ-2975
Iveco LMV
BTR-82A (first appearance)
T-90A
2S19 Msta-S
Buk-M2 missile system
S-400 Triumf
Pantsir-S1
9K720 Iskander
RT-2PM2 Topol-M
Air Column
Mil Mi-26
Mil Mi-8 Colors Party
Mil Mi-24 (returning)
Mil Mi-28 (returning)
Kamov Ka-52 (first appearance)
Mikoyan MiG-29 (returning)
Sukhoi Su-24 (returning)
Sukhoi Su-34 (returning)
Sukhoi Su-27 (returning)
Mikoyan MiG-31 (returning)
Ilyushin Il-76 (returning)
Ilyushin Il-78 (returning)
Tupolev Tu-22M3 (returning)
Tupolev Tu-95 (returning)
Tupolev Tu-160 (returning)
Beriev A-50 (returning)
Sukhoi Su-25 (returning)
Antonov An-124 (returning)
Antonov An-22 (first appearance)
Sukhoi Su-27 and Mikoyan MiG-29 of the Russian Knights and Strizhi' (returning)
Music
Flag procession, Review, and Address
Sacred War (Священная Война) by Alexander Alexanderov
Solemn Triumphal March (Торжественно-Триумфальный Марш) by Valery Khalilov
March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (Марш Преображенского Полка) by Unknown
Slow March of the Officers Schools (Встречный Марш офицерских училищ) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March to Carry the War Flag (Встречный Марш для выноса Боевого Знамени) by Dmitriy Valentinovich Kadeyev
Slow March of the Guards of the Navy (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Evgeny Aksyonov
Glory (Славься) by Mikhail Glinka
Parade Fanfare All Listen! (Парадная Фанфара “Слушайте все!”) by Andrei Golovin
State Anthem of the Russian Federation (Государственный Гимн Российской Федерации) by Alexander Alexandrov
Signal Retreat (Сигнал “Отбой”)
Infantry Column
March General Miloradovich (Марш “Генерал Милорадович”) by Valery Khalilov
Triumph of the Winners (Триумф Победителей)
We are the Army of the People (Мы Армия Народа) by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesya
Air March (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
Crew is One Family (Экипаж - одна семья) by Viktor Vasilyevich Pleshak
March of the Cosmonauts/Friends, I believe (Марш Космонавтов /Я верю, друзья) by Oskar Borisovich Feltsman
Artillery March (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov
We Need One Victory (Нам Нужна Одна Победа) by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о Солдате) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy
To Serve Russia (Служить России) by Eduard Cemyonovich Khanok
March Hero (Марш “Герой”)
March Parade Ground (Марш “Плац”) by Valery Khalilov
On Guard for the Peace (На страже Мира) by Boris Alexanderovich Diev
On the Road (В Путь) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy
Victory Day (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov
Mobile Column
March General Miloradovich (Марш “Генерал Милорадович”) by Valery Khalilov
Invincible and Legendary (Несокрушимая и легендарная) by Alexander Alexandrov
March Three Tankmen (Марш “Три Танкиста”) by Pokrass Brothers
March of the Soviet Tankists (Марш советских танкистов) by Pokrass Brothers
Katyusha (Катюша) by Matvey Blanter
March Victory (Марш “Победа”) by Albert Mikhailovich Arutyunov
Artillery March (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov
Air Column
Invincible and Legendary (Несокрушимая и легендарная) by Alexander Alexandrov
Air March (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
Long Live our State (Да здравствует наша держава) by Boris Alexandrov
Conclusion
Bow to those Great Years (Поклонимся Великим Тем Годам) by Iosif Kobzon
Farewell of Slavianka'' (Прощание Славянки) by Vasiliy Agapkin
See also
Moscow Victory Parade of 1945
Victory Day (9 May)
References
External links
Video Russian Military Power Weapons in 2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade [HD]
Video of 2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade (original audio)
Video of 2013 Moscow Victory Day Parade (with English commentary)
Moscow Victory Day Parades
Moscow Victory Day Parade
2013 in military history
2013 in Moscow
May 2013 events in Russia